The Importance of Parallel Lines in Poetry

In the traditional Japanese haiku form, there are words called kigo that you must mention. This develops in these... If your culture has a long history of this sort of thing, then you might want to think about it. You might have very free-flowing lines and instead work with different things. Really common in the ancient Near East was you'd have these parallel lines for two or three repetitions with slight variations. So I have a little section here from Gilgamesh should I read that? Yeah, go ahead and read it.